#DEMOCRACY

Political Motivation (🏡)

Margin4Error

Impeachment shows Democrats finally learning how to fight dirty against the scum on the other side.Because Impeachment is tactical.It will divide the GOP, undermine Fox News, keep the public mind

Jonathan Rauch

jon_rauch

Let's step back and take stock of what Trump and his supporters and enablers (collectively, "Trumpists") are doing to the GOP and the country right now. (ATTN @davidfrum, @DavidAFrench, @Peter_Wehner,

Dr Robert Bohan Artist

RobertBohan

Let’s talk racism. Most Irish think racism applies only to Black people & are keen to criticise it. When you point out Ireland has a long & nasty history of

Paul Rosenzweig

RosenzweigP

Before Trump fades from memory and his influence on the public wanes, it is important to not forget how abysmal a President he truly was. No doubt many will try

dave karpf

davekarpf

A key dynamic over the next few weeks is the absence of any meaningful leadership or strategic direction within the Republican Party. You have Trump - a tinfoil-hat autocrat at

Aaron Colby Williams

aboutaaron

Today I’m reminded of the Black Panthers who marched (armed) to the California State Capitol in 1967 to protest proposed gun control legislation known as the Mulford Act. 1/6 Their

SAALT

SAALTweets

Yesterday's events "represent a blatant & illegal attempt to deter democracy & promote white supremacy. We all have a duty to respond, not only with condemnation, but with sustained action

Joshua Lamel

jlamel

There are 3,116 pages of non-spending-COVID provisions in the COVID-relief spending bill that have major legislation in it that has not moved through regular order. This bill is the worst

Rachel Cheung

rachel_cheung1

Roberto Bolaño's 2666, The Classic of Poetry, a Chinese dictionary are among books a 19 yro has prepared for his jail term. Tens of thousands were arrested by #HongKong police

Tim Hogan

TimInHonolulu

1. The GOP has survived as a minority party. They don't represent the majority of the US and lose the popular vote more often than win it. But they control.

John Polga-Hecimovich

jpolga

#Venezuela is a dictatorship, yet today's elections still serve a clear purpose for the government and will shift the status quo in their favor. Scholars of authoritarianism understand elections as

Michelle Zink

MichelleZink

Voters still considering a Trump vote: your vote impacts the democracy of this country like never before. Not just policy - our actual democracy. Voter suppression & election integrity are

AukeHoekstra

AukeHoekstra

Don't want to repeat myself, but this continuing allegiance to Trump signals the GOP is getting more and more fascist. Not meant as hyperbole or a swear word but as

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vegix

[THREAD]Socrates' greatest fear of a representative democracy was that the voters would not be informed enough to make a constructive choice.His fear has been realized.The appointment of GW Bush, who

Ben Railton

AmericanStudier

To celebrate #MLKDay & the last Sunday of the Age of Trump, another #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work from the last week. Happy reading! #twitterstorians

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tekstone

"Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth. They know next to nothing as a rule about their own history, or the histories of other

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